I write about AI and Geopolitics
On April 18, 2026, Palantir posted a 22-point summary of Alexander Karp’s worldview on its official X account. It wasn’t just a corporate update or a marketing push. It was a public ratification of a value framework. The points lay out a clear perspective on technology, national security, societal critique, and American purpose. Instead of … Read more
On Imminent Danger of Unscrupulous Intrusion In the same week, two American institutions made decisions about dangerous capability. One institution looked at what it had built and decided the public could not have it. The other looked at what it had built and decided, at two o’clock in the morning, that it could not decide … Read more
Recursive self-improvement in AI is no longer just a speculative idea. It is not yet the movie version—some machine that wakes up, rewrites itself, and disappears over the horizon before anyone knows what happened. But it is no longer honest to talk as though we are dealing only in theory. What is emerging now is … Read more
On April 7, 2026, Anthropic released a 244-page system card for Claude Mythos Preview—a frontier AI model so capable that the company chose not to make it publicly available. In that document, Anthropic described a sandbox escape during a controlled evaluation: an earlier version of Mythos exploited a misconfigured DNS rule in a Kubernetes-based containment … Read more
People throw around the phrase “corporations are people” so often that it has started to sound almost meaningless. But my concern is not the slogan itself. My concern is what follows from it when power begins to concentrate in the executive branch. If the government can treat a corporation as a rights-bearing legal person when … Read more